development packages and multilib

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 06:43:10PM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> This is a dilemma we have in Fedora. I have no idea why someone would
> want to keep the devel subpackages of the same package with different
> archs installed.

Because one wants to compile with 'gcc -m32'.  This is very useful
when you have virtualization.

Unfortunately the more I look at multilib, the more totally broken it
seems to be.

Rich.

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